Dossier 1.9.0

Dossier 1.9.0

Publications on your profile and resumes, a photo on your resumes, a theme menu on each application, Dossier in Claude through a connector, startups that are hiring with the address they publish for applications, a way to leave any part off a tailored resume, a profile strength that only counts what a profile needs, and resumes of up to two pages by default.

What's new

• Publications (#7): a new, optional section in your profile for papers, articles, books and chapters. Write each citation in the style your field uses: select words and press B or I (or Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I) to set your name in bold or the journal in italics, and a preview under the field shows how it looks. Add a link, or paste just the DOI and it becomes its doi.org link, and put them in your own order. Resumes show them after Education, word for word, with the link clickable in the PDF. Turn off Show on resumes to keep one in your profile but off every resume. The AI can mention them in your summary and letters, but never rewrites, picks or reorders them, and never sees their links. Importing a resume reads them too. Thanks to @VictoriaDom for asking for them.
• A photo on your resumes (#8): add one in Profile → Basics and crop it: drag it or use the arrow keys, and zoom with the slider. Each theme shows it in its own shape and place: a circle, a rounded or plain square, or a 3:4 portrait, at the end or start of the header, above your name, or at the top of the sidebar. Choose both under Customize on the Base resume screen, and they're saved in exported themes. Turn off Show on resumes to keep it off, and each application's Resume tab has a Photo switch, for places where photos are expected or not. It stays on your server, is never sent to the AI, and your photo file's details, such as where it was taken, are left behind when it's cropped. Thanks to @hakimh02 for asking for it.
• A theme for each application (#10): the Resume and Cover letter tabs have a Theme menu. Pick another theme and that application's resume and cover letter both change to it, in the preview and the PDF, without writing anything again. A new base theme is still what new applications start with. Thanks to @beeglebug for asking for it.
• Use Dossier from Claude: turn on Settings → Claude connector, add the address it shows in Claude as a custom connector, sign in and press Allow. Then Claude, on claude.ai, in the Desktop and mobile apps or in Claude's command-line app, can search for jobs, score them against your profile, read your profile and applications, and save the resume and cover letter it writes as a Draft, checked like Dossier's own AI's, on your own Claude plan. It never sends or deletes anything, and never sees your contact details or notes. Without an AI model of Dossier's own, Write it with Claude in New application and Score in Find jobs hand the work to a new Claude chat. Disconnect Claude signs it out. Claude on the web needs Dossier at a public HTTPS address; see Connecting Claude. Thanks to @anirudhsharma-2000, whose fork it comes from.
• Startups: a new screen of startups that are hiring: YC startups' job posts and the posts in Hacker News' monthly “Who is hiring?” thread, kept to the ones that hire in your city or country, or remotely and open to your country. Each is ranked against your profile, with the reasons, and shows the address it publishes for applications, read from its own site. That's addresses like jobs@ by default; people's own only when you press Look for people's addresses, and those go after 14 days unless you write to that startup. Dossier follows each site's robots.txt, says who it is, and leaves alone a startup whose site says it takes no unsolicited applications. Write to them starts a new application from what's known about the startup, without its addresses, and fills in the email's recipient for you. Nothing is fetched until you press Refresh; after that it refreshes once a day while you use the screen. Save, dismiss, keep notes, or Remove for good. PRIVACY.md says what it reads and keeps. Thanks to @anirudhsharma-2000, whose fork it comes from.
• Leave out: every part of a tailored resume has Leave out in its toolbar, for a role, project, publication or degree that doesn't help with this job, or even the summary. It's listed above the resume with Put back, together with anything cut to fit the page limit.
• What your profile needs, and what's optional: Profile strength now counts only your name, headline, email, city, country and summary, your experience, education and skills. Projects, Publications, References, Facts about me and Languages are marked optional, and so are phone, date of birth, street address, website and LinkedIn, so a profile reaches 100% without them.
• The Bundesagentur für Arbeit is your own choice: it has no official API, and its terms of use don't allow automated access, so choosing it in Settings → Job search now shows a note saying so, and it's saved only once you tick I understand. The job agent no longer searches it; choose JSearch or Adzuna for the agent. Each of its postings links to its ad on arbeitsagentur.de, next to the employer's own link. A server can take it out with DOSSIER_JOBS_ARBEITSAGENTUR=off.
• Up to two pages by default: unless you've chosen a Resume length in Settings → Documents, tailored resumes now aim for and are trimmed to two pages instead of one. A length you chose stays as it is.

Fixes

• Adzuna's label: Adzuna's terms ask for a linked "Adzuna" on each posting shown. Postings from Adzuna now carry a Jobs by Adzuna badge that opens Adzuna's site for the posting's country, on each card in Find jobs, on the open posting and on the job agent's scored postings. Until now it was plain text, on the open posting only.

Upgrading

Take a backup, then deploy ghcr.io/aientech/dossier:v1.9.0 (see Upgrading in the wiki). On its first start, Dossier adds a table for publications, the photo's settings for themes and applications, a table for postings handed to Claude, and tables for Startups; nothing else changes in your data or configuration.

If you search the Bundesagentur für Arbeit, its searches wait until you tick I understand under the note, in Find jobs or Settings → Job search, and the job agent stops until you choose JSearch or Adzuna for it.

Exports now include your publications and Startups, so a 1.9.0 export can't be imported into an older version, and neither can a theme exported from 1.9.0. Exports and themes from older versions import as before.